402 AECTIAB^. 



C. Fore wing of male wit-bout fold at base of costa, or tufts 

 of hair. 

 a. Fore wing with the termen very slightly angled at 

 middle. 



a^. Fore wing with the ground-colour white erminea. 



h^. Fore wing with the ground-colour brown or grey. 

 fl^. Hind wing fuscous above, the underside with dis- 

 coidal point and curved postmedial line. 



«'. Fore wing grey cernitis. 



b^. Fore wing reddish brown centralis. 



6^. Hind wing whitish. 



a^. Hind wing with terminal fuscous band above 



a nd below. Exp. 14 millim quinqueferana. 



b^. Hing wing without fuscous terminal band. 



Exp. 24 millim russata. 



855. Clemensia erminea. (Plate XXIX. fig. 14.) 

 Ccdhgenia erminea, Schavis, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 151 (1896). 



White ; palpi and fore legs blackish. Pore wing with snbbasal, 

 medial, postmedial, and subterminal small black spots on costa 

 some black scales representing a medial line ; a discoidal point ; a 

 curved black band irrorated with white scales from middle of termen 

 to tornus and with diffused black scales between its upper extremity 

 and the postmedial spot on costa ; a terminal series of brown and 

 black points ; cilia black at apex and middle. Hind wing with 

 broad terminal black band and the cilia black. 



Hah. Brazil, Sao Paulo, Castro Parana (Jones), 1 c? . Exj). 14 

 millim. Type t in Coll. Schaus. 



856. Clemensia cernitis. 



Nola cernitis, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 404, pi. 78. f. 19 (1897), 



5 . Grey. Pore wing with the costal edge black towards base ; 

 an indistinct subbasal line angled in cell and followed by a diffused 

 dark shade ; the antemedial line minutely dentate, angled on 

 median nervure, then oblique ; a crenulate medial line with a 

 triangular dark patch on costa between it and the postmedial series 

 of points, which are bent outwards beyond the two discoidal points 

 and angled at veins 6 and 4; a diffused subterminal line angled at 

 veins 6 and 4, then incurved, double and minutely dentate ; a terminal 

 series of striae and spots on the cilia at apex and vein 4. Hind 

 wing fuscous brown ; the underside whitish, with discoidal point 

 and curved postmedial line. 



Hub. Mexico, Guerrero (H. IT. Smith), 2 2 , type, Godman-Salvin 

 Coll. Ex^^. 20 millim. 



857. Clemensia centralis, n. sp. (Plate XXIX. fig. 18.) 



c? . Brown ; vertex of head, tegulse, and anal tuft whitish. Pore 

 wing irrorated with black scales ; a fine black antemedial line 

 dentate below costa, on median nervure, and vein 1, and defined by 

 whitish on inner side ; a discoidal black point; a fine postmedial 

 line defined by whitish on outer side, bent outwards below costa, 



